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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Henrietta Rose-InnesJenny Lecoat|title= Green LionBeyond Summerland|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= The opening Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean''Green Lion'' is an apparently simple premise; s father was arrested for listening to a young South African manbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, Conleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is tasked with picking up finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. 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 kept 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 belongings world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of an old friendAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Markbasically, who monetary gain. Now Anuri is lying in a coma in hospitalher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Mark worked at a small zoo with a rare black-maned lioness Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, who mauled him undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and caused the comareceiving money from them for doing so. However Most importantly, as the story unfoldsshe is desperately worried about her little sister, Rose-Innes reveals an unflinching embrace of who is the messiness new focus of human Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and animal life, perhaps herself and their troubled interactions. her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709255</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith1529153298|title=A Time The List of Love and TartanSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary=Here we areIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, back on Scotland Streethonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, eager to see what everyone (especially Bertie…) has though. Women have been up to! This is now the twelfth book in the Scotland Street series which is remarkabledisappearing. That a serial novel has such momentumWell, they've been murdered, and that the characters within but to have become 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so very familiar frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to AMSmove the family 'Down South's loyal readers. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a testament to his skills as a writerfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. This time around our nerves are on edge as Pat ventures back towards a relationship with For Miv, the dreadful Bruce! Surely move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll see sensedo anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.won't she?! Matthew, 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of all peopleMaria Callas as Greek, is but she was born to Greek parents in trouble with the policeManhattan, Irene is busy planning a PhDNew York, in December 1923 and Bertie? only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Could there be 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 happy ending mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for Bertie in the air?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973821</amazonuk>her elder sister, Jackie.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess RichardsAlexander McCall Smith|title= City of CirclesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Danu The Perfect Passion Company is a tightrope walker who is mourning her parentsdating agency in Edinburgh, after run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew upmore personal, tailored service. Her mother Ness has entrusted asked her with a locket that hides a secret. Over younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the yearsbusiness, Danu pushes as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away her grief and develops elaborate and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, for a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry herwhile. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu Katie is enchanted by the temples, spice mistscoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and pleasure seekers within so jumps at the intoxicating outer circle districtchance to come home to Edinburgh. Here And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, she finally gains the courage bringing us to open her mother's locketan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and discovers the name of a stranger Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circlequickly begin to charm. Fated to remain Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Matryoshkaher abilities, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever be reunitedthere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of the city?William, to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Low HeightsThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General Fiction Paranormal|summary=Edouard Benny is an exemplary example of having a crotchety old man – changing terrifically bad day. He loses his mindjob, he loses his fiancee, and blaming anything and everything – even that decision – on other peoplehis house gets trashed. He's physically fineOh, apart from one hand disabled by and someone has delivered a strokereally weird, but mentally, what with forgetting disturbing coffin-sized object to his pasthome, assuming too many days are Sundays when theyand it're not and buying too many inappropriate thingss possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, he needs Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nurse – Therese, who has formed an unlikely and almost unwanted couple with himnice person. A really nice person. For Edouard, So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the memory of delivery to his wife house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who died ten years ago has been sent to help him since Benny is still clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a little too stronggood person. But this unusual 'family' Spike is about going to be upset by an unexpected arrivaltake care of Benny, who and will stir the emotions certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and life of their remote house no end…Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477427</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dina NayeriKatherine Howe|title= RefugeA True Account|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sinking boats Hannah Masury is living in stormy seasBoston, national borders boosted having been sent to live with barbed wirea family who run an inn, and overcrowded shelters – the media's portrayal being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of seeking asylum focuses on some pirates in the process in its darkesttown, most dangerous formshe decides to go and watch. What happens after tumultuous journeys Enthralled and temporary shelter is not news; and life after decades horrified in the new country is rarely headline material either. But equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in Dina Nayeria young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. 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'Refuge''s pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, it is and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the life after that takes centre stageocean waves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0735219389</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hawa L Crickmore1471180158|title=Across the OceanMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5

|summary=A young cage fighterJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with for a rare genetic disorder which required man who's a bone-marrow transplant, preferably from control freak with all the subtlety of a siblinghalf brick. Only recently heJamie'd been a fit young mans son, Bo, in 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the prime of lifemore you read, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant more you'll suspect that he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within s on the next fourteen daysautistic spectrum. Unfortunately MartinSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's parents had died a frequent flier in a car crash the local A&E and there were no siblings sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or other close relativesthe need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. His girlfriend, Celia, It was not going to come to a matchhead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elif ShafakB0CKD1L5JL|title= Three Daughters of EveRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre= General Fiction|summary=Set in Istanbul in 2016Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, ''Three Daughters of Eve'' centres on Perireclusive Bear, a Turkish woman who finds herself thinking back to her years at Oxford University to distract herself he is brought up far from a boring dinner party. Her reminiscing is triggered when she finds an old polaroid of herself, her friends Mona bustling cities and Shirinbusy human society, and in the rebellious Professor Azur. Much forests of her thoughts revolve around the scandal that prevented her from graduating from her dream universityWashington's Olympic Peninsula. More of After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a commentary pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on religion than a storyjourney through the forest, broadcasting the novel asks many questions about faith - in particularstrange, Islam - and whether its customs wild and traditions can be adapted to suit modern liferarely heard voices he encounters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241978882</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andre AlexisSarah Marsh|title= The Hidden KeysA Sign of Her Own|rating= 3.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Tancred Palmieri is After a talented thief thrown into the path bout of Willow Azarian an eccentricscarlet fever as a child, unpredictable heroin addictEllen Lark loses her hearing. She is also part Suddenly plunged into a world of the Azarian dynastysilence, bequeathed almost a million dollars upon everything about her father's deathlife changes. Each Living in a time when the use of the Azarian children were also gifted sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a deeply personal memento morischool where she is taught to lip read, which Willow is convinced make up an intricate treasure huntbut physically restrained from signing. She enlists the help of Tancred to steal each item From here, solve she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the mystery deaf and prove she is not blindly following using a baseless fantasysystem called Visible Speech. Tancred must use all his skills to infiltrate At the homes of each of Willow's siblingssame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, uncover the clues hidden and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in each item and fight off the rival interests a complicated tangle of competing criminals and the policeespionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781258422</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Jean LesterB0BC3YTCMR|title= Yuki Means HappinessGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= High-tech and high-rise''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, kimonosa bit too nerdy if truth be told, and bigsuffered from vitiligo -eyed visuals – through a dynamic juxtaposition of the ultra modern and the traditional, Japan has succeeded people were afraid to hug her in branding itself both as an intriguing travel destination that does case it's contagious. It's not cease to surprise, easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsidersmath and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. All of She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this has come was just an extension. She went to be encapsulated his house and reinforced in Sofia Coppola's cult classic ''Lost in Translation'': the iconic still of Scarlett Johansson standing at the scramble crossing in Shibuya has come he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to represent Japan in pop culture as much as the more traditional cherry blossom imagerygive her a lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= S V Berlin1472263936|title= The FavouriteFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Siblings Edward It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and Isobel Vernon havenrefused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena't spoken s parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in years and live on opposite sides up-market Kolonaki would be the first of the Atlanticseveral annual visits. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedly, they are thrown together She grew to sort through love her grandmother and the family home. With Edward's diffident but devoted girlfriendmaid, JulieDina, making an awkward threesomebut was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, each stumbles through retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the practicalities of funeral preparation Junta and house clearing, trying expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to make sense of their emotions and their feelings toward one anotheraccommodate them. Isobel makes a disturbing discovery His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs about the past, hopes for the future and understanding of Maryfather's role in keeping them at once apart and togetherScottish ancestors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>

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

|summary=In June 2009 Isaac Vargas sends his assistant, twentyThe village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants -fourits bread-year-old Alice Whitley, to Bel Air, California to help Mimi Gillespie produce her long-awaited second novellike fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. Under The black wood of the name M.M. Banningforest provides heat and warmth, Mimi issued a wildly successful novel back in the 1970sroofs on homes, ''Pitched''and even gallows, which quickly became a modern classic on every American adolescent's list if needed. The fear of assigned reading for school. She's being buried alive is an existential superstition in the sort of figure Harper Lee was for decades: a one-hit literary wonder village and an infamous recluse. But there's one key difference here: Mimi has that is the reason Volushka, a nine-yeardrunken, self-old sonindulgent, Franklazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782399208</amazonuk>

 {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of 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 life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay LangdaleShalini Boland|title=The Way Back 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 Usbecome his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=A household revolves It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around its weakest member Greece and because itarrived on the island. Rachel wasn's revolving there's always a danger that some people t exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four- such as a spouse year- will be spun old Alistair Wright started to the outsidetake an interest in her, whilst other childrenshe was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, loosely attached to looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the main carer will be at a distance, never completely close, but never escaping girls eitherworked or partied. In }}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the centre are state-of-the carer and the person who needs that care, bonded together in such a way that it-nation novel. There's actually difficult to offer help or even friendship. So something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it is with Anna and Teddy, who suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, or SMA crafting an image of the country as itstands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's generally knownpractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. He's five now, confined to She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a wheelchair or his Whizzybug way that feels natural and not putting on much weight as chewing and swallowing are difficultlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473618363</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)152915118X|title= The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years OldPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= As ''Pineapple Street'' is the old adage goesstory of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to walk their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a mile in someone elseStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's shoes is exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to gain some understanding of what it is move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to be that personanother property, a street or so away, which they own. Admittedly, Hendrik Groen isn They won't much up for long walks need any moreof the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to zoom around call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in; one could say ''their'' family home. They use it so often that we get they abbreviate it to zoom a mile in Groen's shoes, and oh, what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405924004</amazonuk>the GD'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah FranklinEmily Critchley|title= ShelterOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 54|genre= Historical FictionCrime|summary=Connie Granger 84 year old Edie has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge lived in the Women's Timber Corps. For same small town for almost herwhole life, this remote community must but now serve she is facing a secret purposemove as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war However, Edie is haunted tormented by his memories. In the forest campmemory of her childhood friend, he finds Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a strange kind secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of freedomwhat happened all that time ago.Their meeting signals new beginnings After '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. But And yet as they are drawn togethershe remembers the past, the world outside their forest haven she is being torn apartforgetting more and more in her day to day life. Old certainties are crumbling Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and both must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protectbefore her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer McVeighMadelaine Lucas|title=Leopard at 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 Doorbackdrop 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away at school in England The love affair between Margo Garnett and finds a lot can change poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in 6 yearslove. Of course she realises her Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's motheras 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's death influence would alter things but take her away from what they felt she's not prepared for her father's livecould achieve -in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old roomgoing to Oxford and having a glittering career. Michael In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and now went on to become a man with his own ideaswell-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Meanwhile Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the unrest between family home on the British rulers and Isle of Wight. Even then the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to blowleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Daniels1914585402|title= Summer at Hope Meadows|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Animal Ark'' was a popular series of children's books written between 1994 and 2008. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy Hope, the daughter of two vets who run a practice, Animal Ark, in the Yorkshire town of Welford. Along with her best friend James, the children seek to help out creatures in need. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by a collection of authors writing under the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. ''Summer at Hope Meadows'' is the first in a new series for adult readers, continuing grown-up Mandy's story now that she Dashboard Elvis is a fully qualified vet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473653878</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDead|author=Sophie Divry and Alison Anderson (translator)|title=Madame Bovary of the SuburbsDavid F Ross|rating=24.5

|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There'It starts with becoming a homeowner, then settling in, then reproducing.s Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There'' Well, it actually starts s Only One Danny Garvey]] a lot before then, with a set couple of fractured memories of our heroine's childhood – things she recalls her parents years back and relatives saying both to remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and about heraffecting it was. It goes through her childhoodwas a gripping, and pen letters to a best friend conveying her wishes for her lifeemotionally wounding read, those wishes being revised and affirmed by the liberty rereading my review of university years, those wishes being met with or denied by married life… Someone archly could point out it my main takeaway was that you should be careful what you wish for, but I might not even our wise, modern woman could not see the next step after the reproducing – ''standing disappointed in front of the refrigerator''have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857054686</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tania HershmanLucy Ashe|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersClara and Olivia

|genre=Short Stories General Fiction|summary=I wonThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwards Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. Going through from A-ZAnd not on stage, witnessing either. Because there's a lot that builds a bounty of ideas and characters in short order dancer. Some things that can be too muchtaught or learnt – discipline, but do you have the right attention to pick detail – and choose according to what appealssome things, and what time you have to fill? The sequence has carefully been consideredthat ''je ne sais quoi'', surely. Such would appear to be that don't come from the case hereclassroom. The last time I read one of this authorA stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''s collections, with [[. The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]]difference between a hard-worker, the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionsstar.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane JohnsonHeather Fawcett|title= Court Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of LionsFaeries|rating= 54|genre= Historical General Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on earthfaerie lore, and she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alonework, afraid and hiding under a false namethe very first encyclopaedia of faeries. And fate Whilst she is about brilliant at research and speaking to bring her face-to-face faeries, she is not so good with her greatest fearpeople. Five centuries ago, a message So when she finds herself far, far North in a hand few could readthe small village of Hrafvsnik, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of having somehow offended the Alhambra's walls. There it village matriarch, she is not sure what she has laindone, undisturbed by nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the tides of history – the Fall of Granadaright track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of loveher dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, in a time of danger all charm and desperationdelight, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Katemuch to Emily's life foreverfrustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Cohen1398515388|title=TogetherThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating=4.5

|summary=This is a love story told backwardsFirst of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the most beautiful mannerocean floor, so that we know from which created the very beginning that Emily tsunami and Robert love each other enormouslythis, and that he is about to break her heart in turn, caused the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that they've lived with for decadesnuclear meltdown. Seeing their love unfold in reverse is beautifulThe result was complete and utter devastation. We get to know them once they have already gotten to know each otherThe deaths were uncountable, and it makes for an unusual and interesting structurethe loss of livelihoods was widespread. The secret they hold is referred to throughout, fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but it isn- six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't revealed until very late in a dog person but the book. Iconvenience store owner'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you know, you want s comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to go back open his car door and read Tamon the whole story again dog jumped in the light of the information you now hold.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409171744</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate MildenhallChristopher Bowden|title= SkylarkingMr Magenta|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything, until a fishermanseemingly ordinary woman's life, McPhail, arrives in their small communitycarried out by her nephew after she has died. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings a little bit of envy indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens it seems to him an obligation to tear their peaceful community apartfind it all out. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785079239</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Zoe DuncanJennifer Mason|title= The Shifting PoolsPartitions of Unity|rating= 2.54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Perhaps the most overused phrase Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in fiction publishing is ''life-affirming''[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], closely followed by ''human condition''. The Shifting Pools takes this to when she investigated and unravelled a whole new levelseries of disappearances. Its blurb boasts that it is In ''charged throughout with the beautiful urgency Partitions of lifeUnity'', whatever that means. It isn't. And that's the problem. This isn't a bad book, but it she sets itself up her mind to fail. A cardinal rule of writing is ''focus on the small stuff''. If you set out to write solving a ''life affirming'' novel that answers all the ''big questions'', you'll strugglemurder. And it is this trap that Zoe Duncan falls into. In her quest for profundity she loses her way. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785630369</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah HealyWill Carver|title= The Sisters ChaseDaves Next Door|rating= 4|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=Mary ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and Bunny. That-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a women's how it has always been ever since Bunny was born. Two sisters track coach with an unbreakable bonda yen for bullwhips, twisted together so tight that they were two sides a billionaire with a state-of -the same coin. Bunny was Mary'-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s whole world; nothing else really mattered; school...friends...boys...well, maybe one boyx), but he was something altogether extraordinary. When the unthinkable happenedon a cheap oil painting, Mary and Bunny found themselves completely alone an erotic art dealer in the world, and thatGeorgia...''s when Mary decided to take an unforgettable road trip,  This is just a sample of the two cast of themcharacters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, across the United States, in search some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of a place where they could belongthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0544960076</amazonuk>B09STS96HS