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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Virginie Despentes and Frank Wynne (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title= Vernon Subutex 1Beyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Vernon Subutex is a wanted manJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Following During the death of Alex Bleachwar, VernonJean's generous benefactor father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and publicly adored musiciansoldiers took him away one night, Vernon now has the last recordings leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of Alex's drug induced ramblingshim. Kicked out of his apartment As the British finally free the Channel islands from the story follows Vernon as he couch surfs his way across ParisNazis, pursued by journalists and media moguls desperate to cash in on Bleach's death. Eventually finding himself out of luck, friends and money Vernon the war is left sleeping roughfinally over, half mad and forced to bear witness to a shocking act their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of violencehim. In But will the truth come as a world of capricious friends and grasping avaricious journalists relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who can Vernon trusttold the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857055410</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rowena MacDonaldOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Threat Level Remains SevereAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Grace Ambrose isnAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia't Brigitte Joness increasingly popular presence on social media, honest; for one thing where she doesnposted every step of Anuri't keep a diarys childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Grace Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is our typical misogynistic Hollywood stereotype supporting female characterslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. She 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''secretly hot chick'' who will suddenly take off their glassess online empire. Can she save her sister, shake out their hair and reveal themselves to have been beautiful all along. We follow Grace perhaps herself and her romantic adventures (and misadventures) over three years of relationship with her life father at the House of Commons.same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709158</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Matt HaigJennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=How to Stop TimeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Tom is an albatross. That's not We tend to say he has a freakish wingspan, or anythingthink of Maria Callas as Greek, but it means he's not a mayfly. In contrast she was born to all us regular humans with our temperamental bodies living out short lifespansGreek parents in Manhattan, he ages at a speed roughly one-fifteenth of that at which we doNew York, in December 1923 and barely gets touched by any diseaseonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It means he will live for several more centuries than the ones he has witnessed so far, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but ever since his mother was drowned as a witch due her father changed it to 'Callas' to his teenaged self never ageing, he has known make it more manageable in the best thing for him – and others – is to regularly move onStates. Solitude has been tempered since the late Victorian era, when other people even older than him press-ganged him into their society of albatrosses, but the fact of the matter is that falling When she was back in love really is a noAthens -no. But supposedly so that's not to say it never happened, and that's not to say that he can't feel things she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the albatross daughter he's not seen Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for centuriesher elder sister, Jackie. It might be the only thing he has to live for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782118616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dane HuckelbridgeAlexander McCall Smith|title= Castle of WaterThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Barry Bleeker The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Sophie Ducel are two very different people destined operating as an alternative to take all the same journeyonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. As they are both aboard Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a flight trip to Canada to the Marquesas Islandsget away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, their tiny plane crashes leaving Barry and Sophie so jumps at the only survivorschance to come home to Edinburgh. Until recently And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Barry was bringing us to an investment banker in New York before he decided Edinburgh we already love, thanks to leave his life behind 44 Scotland Street and pursue his dream of paintingthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Sophie meanwhile Katie has no experience in running a business, was a French architect who along with or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her husband Etienne was planning a honeymoon of a lifetime. Now Barry very helpful (and Sophie are alone on an uninhabited island in the South Pacificrather handsome) neighbour, William, where they must learn to put aside their differences and survive.lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008217858</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M L RioDean Koontz|title= If We Were VillainsThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Murder most horrid amongst Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a group young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of 4th Year university students some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of Shakespearetwo vicious pirates. We open She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as our protagonist a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is released a mutiny on board, and from jail having served his time there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a crime man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he may or may 's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not have committedfit enough to go to school. What did he do? What happened that year? Why did things turn out Missed shifts or the way they did? We have need to be away on time to push our way through pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the undergrowth of flashbacks wrong. It was going to come to find outa head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785656473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martha ConwayB0CKD1L5JL|title= The Floating TheatreRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 54|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=When young seamstress May Bedloe Petr is left alone and penniless on an orphan. Rescued by the shore of the Ohiostrange, reclusive Bear, she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity he is brought up far from bustling cities and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among busy human society, in the colourful troupe forests of actorsWashington's Olympic Peninsula. She finds friends After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and possibly armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the promise of more. But cruising forest, broadcasting the border between the Confederate South strange, wild and the 'free' North is fraught with dangerrarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3. For the sake 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a debt that must be repaidchild, May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of darknesssilence, across everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the river and onuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, along the underground railroad. But as May's secrets become harder Ellen is sent to keep, a school where she learns she must endanger those now dear is taught to herlip read, but physically restrained from signing.  And to save the lives of others From here, she must risk her own.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 same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Kehlmann and Ross Benjamin (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=You Should Have LeftGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Our narrator is a screenwriter, tasked with coming up with a sequel to his hit movie ''Besties'' – a film which helped pay This story is not for a house, but which his actress wife keeps letting him know, isn't ''arteveryone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. To concentrate, the family – he, the wife, and their four year old daughter – have rented She was a largevery bright student, modern house at the end of a horridbit too nerdy if truth be told, hairpin bendand suffered from vitiligo -filled road, people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a charming alpine landscapeblack girl whose skin is 84% white. But things aren't rightShe had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. The couple are Then he did: Lavender was very good at loggerheads too much, things keep unsettling our narrator, math and the sole shopkeeper for miles around is ready with the Hammer Horror styled warnings of strange eventsReggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. Quickly we see the book's title in all its galling clarity – but it isn't too late She went to get out… is it? his house and he raped her. And out of whatIn shock, exactly?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484048</amazonuk>she even allowed him to give her a lift home.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1472263936|title=The Lie of the LandFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=The Bredins can't afford to divorce. The house It was in London ''would'' sell, but not for a priced 1968 that would allow Quentin and Lottie ( she with Helena McCloud made her son and their two girls) first trip to each get somewhere to liveGreece. Unemployment has barrelled into the equation tooShe was alone: Lottie's lost her job as an architect mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and Quentinrefused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's prowess as parents) felt that it would be a journalist is in reducing demandpity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. There's not much Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the way first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family help available: Lottie's mother's house might be worth six millionmaid, Dina, but she barely scrapes by on was wary - and frightened - of her incomegrandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. ThereHis prejudices included Helena's one solution that just might work: the house in London can be let red hair and theygreen eyes - inherited from her father'll move to somewhere cheap in the country and live as best they can on the rent they receives Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709295</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann O' LoughlinDean Koontz|title= The Ludlow Ladies' SocietyAfter Death|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=''The Ludlow Ladies' Society'' Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is the story of two women and their struggle to come to terms with the terrible tragedies released in their livesa bio-hazard accident. Connie Carter arrives at Ludlow Hall Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a property she sense that something very, very bad has inherited in Ireland, with no clue happened to him – and only him – as to what to expecthe sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. The close-knit community are curious 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 American,Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It'' who seems to have no desire to integrate herself into s surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the communityvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. NearbyThe black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, lives Everoofs on homes, a widowand even gallows, who formerly lived at Ludlow Hallif needed. She, too, has painful memories The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and scars that are slow to healis the reason Volushka, but as she begins to form a friendship with the reclusive Conniedrunken, self-indulgent, the two form lazy lout of a bond that will help them both face their grief togetherman is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785301276</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tina SeskisB0BYF82CXT|title= The HoneymoonSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= For as long as she can remember, Jemma has been planning the perfect honeymoon. A fortnight's retreat to 'Bill and Amanda are living in a fivesemi-star resort detached house, stuck in the Maldivesa depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, complete with luxury villaswhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, personal butlers successful and absolute privacyvery much in love – move in next door.It should be paradiseDespite their different outlooks on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what itseems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.'s turned into a nightmare. Because the man Jemma married a week ago has just disappeared from the island without a trace. And now her perfect new life is vanishing just as quickly before her eyes. After everything they've been through together, how can this be happening? Is there anyone on the island who Jemma can trust? And above all - where has her husband gone? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917970</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 17/6 -->Frontpage|author=Hugo DriscollShalini Boland|title=Seven Days with YouThe Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5

|summary=There It was little in the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteenthat 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 Sean Johnson's life Alistair Wright started to give him joytake an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. He It was quite a farmhand in the small town while before he made any sort of Bloxford physical approach to her and the highlights of by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his life were his daily chats with his friend Tom, helping out at the animal sanctuary and a trip to the pub interests on a Saturday night. The downsides were the boring job island and having to live with a drunken father who seemed to have no intention of getting over the death of his wife many years earlier. But it would be the animal sanctuary which brought joy into his life in particular in the form of Sophia Hillingdon, daughter of one of bar where all the top lawyers in the country and about to go to Oxford to study law herself. It was their love of animals which would spark their love for each othergirls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B07113VFF3</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas BoardAmanda Craig|title= Time of LiesThree Graces|rating=4.5

|summary= The Labour Party has split Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. 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 twoone particular moment. So have To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the Conservativesgenre of contemporary social fiction at this point. The smaller parties have descended She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into squabbling the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and internal strife. Brexit negotiations have trundled on lived-in dribs and drabs, held up at every turn by a slow-moving and mostly unwilling Europenever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630342</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan Mooney152915118X|title= Me, Myself and ThemPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As witty as it ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is unsettlingmarried to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, Dan Mooney offers only Sasha isn't a story with Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the potential clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to open up public conversation around mental health move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the human response furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to distress and trauma'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paula McGrathEmily Critchley|title= A History of Running AwayOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 24|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= There's a point early on 84 year old Edie has lived in Paula McGrath's novel where I had that pleasant feeling of discovering the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a newmove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, exciting author who was going as Edie is starting to take me in a multitude of different directionslose her memory. This feeling However, Edie is fading fast after 40 pages. By tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 pages I'm scrabbling around years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for redeeming features - maybe some Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of the characters introduced earlier who have what happened all mysteriously disappeared will reappear and administer life supportthat time ago. After 100 pages all hope 'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is lost forgetting more and I just want more in her day to finish day life. Will she uncover the damn thing.truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473641780</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena KalayilMadelaine Lucas|title=The Bureau of Second ChancesThirst for Salt|rating= 5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary=Recently widowed''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, with a grownyoung woman unravels the year-up daughter forging long relationship that once defined her own life abroad. Overlaid with later wisdom, London-based optometrist Thomas Imbalil takes early retirement and returns to his native India. After the narrator relives the affair with a short period enjoying man twenty years her senior from its inception – the peace of his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, he agrees to commute summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the city for a few months to look summer after Chacko's Optical Store to help out an old friend. Thomas soon discovers that Set against the eager young assistant Rani is running another business on backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the side24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, but he agrees to turn a blind eye and leave how it to his friend to deal with changed her perspective on his return. However, it stirs up thoughts both romantic and doubts within Thomas familial relationships and before long he's involved whether he wants to be or nothow it altered her irrevocably.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973929</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Edge0008506337|title= The Hopkins ConundrumGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in Wales, which he plans to rescue love. Richard was twenty-one and described by enlisting Margo's mother as 'an American pulp novelist older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley HopkinsOxford and having a glittering career. In the event, who composed '' they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The Wreck couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the Deutschlanddoubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge'' nearby.

In Victorian England, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full of confusion and contradiction, but discovers a calling for poetry that threatens to overrule his calling to GodThen Richard left them. And, speaking of God, Five nuns leave persecution to travel to a new world – only to find themselves in more trouble that they could ever have imagined… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785630334</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benjamin Ludwig1914585402|title= The Original Ginny MoonDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= To Ginny, a child with autism, the word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from the home of her abusive birth mother, Gloria. Now fourteen, and in her fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to GloriaI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's apartment. She has no illusions about her motherOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's addictions or lack Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of parenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting it might even kill herwas. Still she plotsIt was a gripping, obsessed with returning to Gloria's to find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bed. Her teachers, therapistemotionally wounding read, and new Forever Parents are in turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her life, the reader follows Ginny rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on a journey filled with danger and discovery, in her quest to find a place she can truly call her Forever Homeit. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456611</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harriet CummingsLucy Ashe|title=We All Begin As StrangersClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the summer of 1984outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a Chilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as lot that builds a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the homes of several residents in the areadancer. Despite an increased police presenceSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, regular patrols attention to detail – and vigilante groupssome things, this slippery character still managed to evade detection. A huge police that ''Foxhuntje ne sais quoi'' followed, and finally, forensic evidence led to that don't come from the eventual capture of the perpetratorclassroom. This real-life news story sparked the imagination of A stage presence, a young Harriet Cummingscharm, who went on to create a fictional version of events, which invites the reader to turn detective and try and unmask ''The Foxjoie de vivre'' from . The difference between a hard-worker, and a range of possible suspectsstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409169049</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val HarrisHeather Fawcett|title=Hunting GroundEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

|summary=Nyara Camp Emily Wilde is one of the newest camps in the Masai Mara an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and itresearched meticulously, to write her life's run by James and Alexia Sackvillework, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. The guests might sleep in tentsWhilst she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeries, but it's still luxury accommodation in anybody's bookshe is not so good with people. Chui CampSo when she finds herself far, on far North in the other handsmall village of Hrafvsnik, sticks with having somehow offended the traditional way that safaris were runvillage matriarch, including bucket showers. Owner Ralph Somerton she is convinced that's not sure what the guests ''should'' want she has done, nor how to redeem herself and he won't listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions put her final investigations for updating her book back on the tired venueright track. It's beginning to be reflected in the profits Chui makesEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, but instead of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition all charm and it's only a small step from that reasoning delight, much to looking at ways of ensuring NyaraEmily's failurefrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955599717</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dominic Smith1398515388|title= The Last Painting of Sara de VosBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary= If you find First of all, it was the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinatingearthquake, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass deep in how to work up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch paintingocean floor, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out which created the main contours of his characters tsunami and this, in turn, caused the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way throughnuclear meltdown. Sara is one of the few women artists of the period The result was complete and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figureutter devastation. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born deaths were uncountable, and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattanloss of livelihoods was widespread. Ellie Shipley forged a copy The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of Sydneyconvenience store. He wasn's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely t a dog person but the authorconvenience store owner's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to mark out open his car door and Tamon the composition which will followdog jumped in. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>192526680X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stewart O'NanChristopher Bowden|title= Last Night at the LobsterMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain Christopher Bowden's latest novel is closing some a patient untangling of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmasa seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. Amid the Christmas lights, office parties The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, the manager of one a little bit of these failing outlets, has indulgence to keep a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it all together for one last day. Short-handed, with most of the staff who've bothered seems to turn up facing unemployment, he tries him an obligation to make the best of a bad job, find it all the while knowing this will be the last day he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn't still be in love with, particularly not now he's about to be a dad. Oh, and there's a blizzard on the wayout.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760293865</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delia EphronJennifer Mason|title=SiracusaPartitions of Unity

|summary= Michael and Lizzie are a writer–journalist couple from New York City; Finn and Taylor live with their ten-year-old daughterHere at Bookbag Towers, Snowwe first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in Portland, Maine, where Finn (an old flame of Lizzie's) owns a restaurant. After meeting up [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by chance on a trip to London last yearJennifer Mason|Preposterous]], they decide to go away together for when she investigated and unravelled a proper holiday in Italy, to the Sicilian island series of Siracusa via Romedisappearances. In alternating chapters, the narrative moves fluidly between the perspectives ''Partitions of the four adultsUnity'', all of whom are reflecting – with the help of hindsight and therapy – on what ended up being she sets her mind to solving a disastrous tripmurder.. Although we don't learn until very late on in the book exactly what went wrong, there's a sense that it might be something to do with Snow.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786071541</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caro FraserWill Carver|title= The Summer House PartyDaves Next Door|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, Five strangers come together in one moment as a group of people meet at suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a country house partyLondon tube line. Within three yearsAs their fates overlap, England will be at war, but for now, time stands still. Dan Ranscombe the story is clever and good-looking, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure told in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gatherbackwards order, none has any inkling leading up to the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and beyondmoment. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786691485</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna PitoniakJennifer Mason|title=The FuturesPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery

|summary=Charlton's 'A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the sort of village where people aspire to live2004 Olympics, despite its apparent ordinariness. Therea women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the usual mix of commuters -art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(it's not ''too'' far from London, x) and those who make their lives , on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in the villageGeorgia... Richard Hughes '' This is just a commuter, but his wife Jessica works at sample of the local academy, where both their children - Alfie cast of characters and Hannah - are pupils. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wife, Susiesettings in Preposterous. ActuallyAs you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug her before longthis mystery story goes like this. Less popular is Gary Webber. He's the sort of man who causes people to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf club.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911079840</amazonuk>B09STS96HS