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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine BurnsJenny Lecoat|title= The VisitorsBeyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Marion Zetland Jean lives on Jersey with her domineering older brother, John, in a decaying Georgian townhouse on mother where they are celebrating the edge end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bearsbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, Marion does leaving Jean and her best to shut out mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the shocking secret that John keeps in Channel islands from the cellar. UntilNazis, suddenly, John has a heart attack and Marion the war is forced to go down to the cellar herself and face finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the gruesome truth that her brother has kept hidden. As come as a relief, or will it raise further questions are asked and around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets unravel, maybe John isn't have been kept throughout the only one with a dark side.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1787199851</amazonuk>1846976537

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= J R WardOnyi Nwabineli|title= Devil's CutAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=I feel as though I came Anuri spent her childhood on display to this book under false pretenses. I requested the book thinking I was getting a murder mystery world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and instead I was thrown head first into a roaring family saga. Indeed, said murder mystery though pivotal in the history of the familybasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is more of a quiet subplot in her twenties and catalyst from where she is slowly trying to begin the storytelling for the book. And so it was I was met with the Baldwine family regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the Bradford Bourbon Companycontent about her. The initial meeting Anuri is a romantic one as the family are presented high up in their castle on the hill - or in this case from their beautiful Kentuckian Bradford Family Estate replete with tea rosesbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, fruit trees undergoing therapy and hazy Southern sunshinesecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. It isn't long however before Ward transports Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the reader from such rolling splendour to the darkest corners new focus of human psychology wherein fathers Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and sons may share perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same lover, brothers are divided by suspicion and jealousy and women are used as trophies and commodities.time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349417024</amazonuk>0861546873

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phill Featherstone1529153298|title= Paradise GirlThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 35|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens It's 1979 and two or three cows and a few sheepMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. The kind of farm that might Women have been profitable in the 1950s disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but by the time Kerryl has arrived should to have been struggling'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the grandparents are old and the father family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is deada frightening, would not be met with exasperated indulgenceforeign place, best avoided. There are no stock-handsFor Miv, no farm managersthe move would mean leaving her best friend, no applications for subsidiesSharon, or worries and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs of the rest of it. Already, in setting, itdangers or that her Mum's feeling a little unrealstopped talking - to anyone. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Aragona1035906708|title=Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive DiplomacyDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary=Sarah is married We tend to Giorgio and when we first meet them he's Something Very Senior in the foreign ministry in Romethink of Maria Callas as Greek, much but she was born to the disappointment of his mother who thought that he'd be there for her (Greek parents in Sicily)Manhattan, New York, but not in December 1923 and only does he go and marry a foreigner, he has a job which will take him all over the worldmoved to Athens when she was thirteen. Such is Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the life of the diplomatStates. Their two daughters have to lead a pretty peripatetic life too, but when the family comes into our lives they're all When she was back in Rome Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the time being - Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and just back from Nigeria. To add to the confusion there's Beaglemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, just about as undiplomatic a dog as you'll encounterJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1542733405</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas NeviaserAlexander McCall Smith|title=You Dear, Sweet ManThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Bobby Fastow's journey The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to work on all the subway was an oasis of calm online apps in an otherwise exhausting day: nothing was required of himproviding a more personal, tailored service. He Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could sit come and relaxlook after the business, gazing as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the adverts until he got chance to his stop and went come home to his physically-demanding jobEdinburgh. The ad for BurgerBlast caught his eye: a beautiful woman was sitting on a boardroom tableAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, encouraging you thanks to read about 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business's move away from artery, or in match-choking food to a healthier menumaking, but it wasn't the message which caught BobbyNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's attention. It was the woman. She seemed always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to be looking directly at him and he could have sworn that she winked...lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0976018527</amazonuk>1846976596

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura SolomonDean Koontz|title=Taking WainuiThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|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

|summary= This Hannah Masury is the first time I have come across Laura Solomon's workliving in Boston, having been sent to live with a New Zealand writer family who has won writing prizes for both her fiction run an inn, and poetrybeing made to work there from a young age. Although this book appears When she hears there is to be a collection hanging of 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 short storiestwo vicious pirates. She hides away, I found its format somewhat confusingso 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 a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>8193409353</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Debbie Howells1471180158|title= The Death of HerMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating= 34.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=In Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a quiet part man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of rural Cornwall, villagers are shocked to learn that a local woman has been attacked and left for dead in a maize fieldhalf brick. So severe are her injuries Jamie's son, Bo, that her memory 'has been affected his problems'. He's asthmatic and she struggles to remember details of her life. She tells the police more you read, the more you'll suspect that she thinks her name is Eviehe's on the autistic spectrum. Then, Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she remembers something else; she has 's a three-year-old daughter called Angelfrequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Where is Angel, and what happened Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to her pick Bo up from school are occasions when her mother Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was attacked? The police frantically search for Angel's whereabouts, but on closer examination of Evie's cottage, they find no evidence of going to come to a child ever having lived therehead...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509834648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander McCall SmithGraham 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.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' 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 told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not 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 math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1472263936|title=The House of Unexpected SistersFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop

|summary=Dear Mma Ramotswe is backIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, for had left the eighteenth family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (!Helena's parents) book in the series, and what felt that it would be a beautiful book it ispity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. I ran through Her trip to the whole tumult of emotions whilst reading this story, with all family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the usual moments of humour, annoying (and yet endearing) idiosyncrasies of character, low level mystery solving and endless cups first of redbush teaseveral annual visits. There is a case for She grew to love her grandmother and the agency with a lady who has been wrongfully fired from her job. Therefamily's the worryingmaid, Dina, background presence but was wary - and frightened - of Mma Makutsi's nemesis, Violet Sepothoher grandfather, who must surely have been involved in this poor lady's job woesretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. And there is He was proud of his close connections to the difficult discovery of an unknown Junta and expected his family member for Mma Ramotswe, to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and an unwelcome return green eyes - inherited from anotherher father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408708140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maja Lunde Dean Koontz|title=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 Diane Oatley (translator)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 History of BeesGrave Listeners|author=William Frank

|summary=Bees are a handy symbol of the planetThe village is isolated and poor. It's environmental degradation, as you'll know if you've read anything surrounded by [[:Category:Dave Goulson|Dave Goulson]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on a Witching Forest. And the cover of this Uvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines.K. release The black wood of Norwegian children's writer Maja Lunde's first novel for adultsthe forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. The creatures also provide subtle links between fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the book's three story linesreason Volushka, a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162745</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jem VanstonB0BYF82CXT|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 Semi- The One with the KittensDetached|author=Deborah Stone

|summary=George, Dog the cat ''Bill and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with Amanda are living in a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewing. Three kittens had found their way into the garden and told the resident cats that their mother had told them to run away when a twosemi-legs cat catcher came for them all. Mother couldn't run as she had detached house, stuck in a sore pawdepressing rut of boredom and disappointment, but Daisywhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, Maisie successful and Boo had run and run and runvery much in love – move in next door. They'd no idea what happened to her - or how to get back home again. George is getting Despite their different outlooks on in years life, the couples befriend each other and wouldn't like life appears to upset his two legs, The Lady, by being away from home improve for too longboth pairs. But all is not what it seems, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Motherincreasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786293390</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susi OsborneShalini Boland|title=Angelica StoneThe 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|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 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, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5

|summary=I'd say that Angelica Stone was known as Angel to her friends, but sheFew styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's not big on friends. She has something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the sort atmosphere of background you dread hearing about: sexually abused as a child, grabbed by the care system day and didn't so much fall through capture it, crafting an image of the cracks country as escaped its clutches and then had to learn how to copeit stands in one particular moment. She's been told To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's tainted, that she ruins every relationship without intending to and that she's best staying away from 'decent' peoplepractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. One She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her jobs is working characters in a supermarket and it's there way that she meets Lola Moriarty feels natural and ''she's'' a completely different kettle of fishlived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911320947</amazonuk>140871468X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Virginia Macgregor152915118X|title= Before I Was YoursPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Rosie can see clearly her future family in her mind. And when that doesn't happen, she adapts. So maybe she won't carry Pineapple Street'' is the baby inside herstory of three women: Sasha, but that lovely blonde girl at the adoption event could be Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their new daughterbrother Cord. Yes They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she looks like she belongs to them already. Itisn's meant to bet readily accepted into the tribe. Except it The problem's not. Rosie exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sam donSasha if they't get d like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a genetic child street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of their ownthe furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they donhad a choice but that wasn't get to adopt the perfect blonde girlreality. They end up with the exact opposite: a boy from Kenya with a peculiar back story Darley and an ardent wish not Georgiana start to be adoptedcall Sasha 'the gold digger'. As optimistic as Rosie and Sam try She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to be, this isn't quite what they pictured or hoped forthe GD'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565229</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gabrielle ZevinEmily Critchley|title= Young Jane YoungOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern 84 year old Edie has lived in Florida, makes the same small town for almost her whole life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss - who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married - and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life now she is over before it hardly begins. She becomes facing a late-night talk show punchline; she is slut-shamed, labelled move as fat and ugly, and considered a blight on politics in general.How does one go on after this? In Aviva's case, she sees no way out but her son wants to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. She starts over as a wedding planner, tries another house and bring Edie to be smarter about her lifelive with his family, and as Edie is starting to raise lose her daughter to be strong and confidentmemory.But when However, at Edie is tormented by the urging memory of othersher childhood friend, she decides to run for public office herselfLucy, that long-who went missing over 60 years ago mistake trails her via , and the Internet like worry that there was a scarlet A. These days, Google guarantees secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the past is never, ever, truly past, thing that everything you've done will live on for everyone to know about for reveals the truth of what happened all eternitythat time ago. And it After 's only a matter of time until Aviva/Janeseeing's daughterLucy in the high street, Rubyjust as she was the last time she saw her, finds out who she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her mother was. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and ismore in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and must decide whether she can still respect before her.memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408709805</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Henrietta Rose-InnesMadelaine Lucas|title= Green LionThirst for Salt|rating= 45|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= The opening of ''Green LionLove, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' is an apparently simple premise;  Told from a retrospective view, a young South African manwoman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, Con, is tasked the narrator relives the affair with picking up a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the belongings backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old friendnarrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, Mark, who is lying in a coma in hospital. Mark worked at a small zoo with a rare blackdepicting its all-maned lionessconsuming nature, who mauled him how it changed her perspective on both romantic and caused the coma. However, as the story unfolds, Rose-Innes reveals an unflinching embrace of the messiness of human and animal life, familial relationships and their troubled interactionshow it altered her irrevocably. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910709255</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall Smith0008506337|title=A Time of Love and TartanThe Garnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=Here we areThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, back apparently on Scotland Street, eager to see what everyone (especially Bertie…) has been up to! both sides. This is now the twelfth book Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the Scotland Street series which is remarkablelove. That a serial novel has such momentum, Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that the characters within have become so very familiar to AMSRichard's loyal readers, is a testament influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to his skills as Oxford and having a writerglittering career. This time around our nerves are on edge as Pat ventures back towards a relationship with In the dreadful Bruce! event, Surely she'll see sensethey 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 couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha.won't she?! MatthewLife was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of all people, is in trouble with Wight. Even then the police, Irene is busy planning a PhD, and Bertie? Could there doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be a happy ending for Bertie able to leave him in the air?charge''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973821</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess Richards1914585402|title= City of CirclesDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Danu is I reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a tightrope walker who is mourning her parents, after a disease has ravaged the circus where she grew up. Her mother has entrusted her with a locket that hides a secret. Over the couple of years, Danu pushes away her grief and develops elaborate back and successful high-wire acts with Morrie, a charismatic hunchback who wants to marry her. When the circus returns to Danu's birthplace, Matryoshka, Danu is enchanted remember being absolutely floored by the temples, spice mists, how powerful and pleasure seekers within the intoxicating outer circle districtaffecting it was. HereIt was a gripping, she finally gains the courage to open her mother's locketemotionally wounding read, and discovers the name rereading my review of a stranger who lives behind the locked gate of the Inner Circleit my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on it. Fated to remain in Matryoshka, Danu attempts to resolve this mystery. Will she and Morrie ever be reunited, or will something far more unexpected be waiting for her in the mysterious heart of the city?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473656680</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pascal Garnier and Melanie Florence (translator)Lucy Ashe|title=Low HeightsClara and Olivia

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Edouard The year is an exemplary example of 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a crotchety old man dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – changing his minddiscipline, attention to detail – and blaming anything and everything – even some things, that decision – on other people. He's physically fine'je ne sais quoi'', apart that don't come from one hand disabled by the classroom. A stage presence, a strokecharm, but mentallya ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, what with forgetting his pastand she has travelled extensively, assuming too many days are Sundays when they're not and buying too many inappropriate thingsresearched meticulously, he needs a nurse – Thereseto write her life's work, who has formed an unlikely the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and almost unwanted couple speaking to faeries, she is not so good with himpeople. For EdouardSo when she finds herself far, far North in the memory small village of his wife Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who died ten years ago is still a little too strongarrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustration. But this unusual 'family' why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is about to be upset by an unexpected arrival, who will stir going on with the emotions and life of their remote house no end…faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910477427</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dina Nayeri1398515388|title= RefugeThe Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Sinking boats in stormy seasFirst of all, national borders boosted with barbed wireit was the earthquake, and overcrowded shelters – deep in the media's portrayal of seeking asylum focuses on ocean floor, which created the process tsunami and this, in its darkestturn, most dangerous formcaused the nuclear meltdown. What happens after tumultuous journeys The result was complete and temporary shelter is not news; utter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and life the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after decades in the new country is rarely headline material eithertsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. But in Dina Nayeri He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's ''Refuge'', it is comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the life after that takes centre stagedog jumped in. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0735219389</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hawa L CrickmoreChristopher Bowden|title=Across the OceanMr Magenta

|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a rare genetic disorder which required patient untangling of a bone-marrow transplantseemingly ordinary woman's life, preferably from carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a sibling. Only recently he'd been little bit of indulgence to a fit young man, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from nephew had had a rare type of bone cancer: without the transplant he would be paralysed for much more interesting life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents than that nephew Stephen had died in a car crash ever realised and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a matchit seems to him an obligation to find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elif ShafakJennifer Mason|title= Three Daughters Partitions of EveUnity

|genre= General Fiction|summary=Set Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in Istanbul in 2016[[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Three Daughters Partitions of EveUnity'' centres on Peri, a Turkish woman who finds herself thinking back to she sets her years at Oxford University mind to distract herself from solving a boring dinner party. Her reminiscing is triggered when she finds an old polaroid of herself, her friends Mona and Shirin, and the rebellious Professor Azurmurder. Much of her thoughts revolve around the scandal that prevented her from graduating from her dream university. More of a commentary on religion than a story, the novel asks many questions about faith - in particular, Islam - and whether its customs and traditions can be adapted to suit modern life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241978882</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andre AlexisWill Carver|title= The Hidden KeysDaves Next Door|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= Tancred Palmieri is Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a talented thief thrown into the path of Willow Azarian an eccentric, unpredictable heroin addictLondon tube line. She is also part of the Azarian dynastyAs their fates overlap, bequeathed almost a million dollars upon her father's death. Each of the Azarian children were also gifted a deeply personal memento moristory is told in backwards order, which Willow is convinced make leading up an intricate treasure hunt. She enlists the help of Tancred to steal each item, solve the mystery and prove she is not blindly following a baseless fantasy. Tancred must use all his skills to infiltrate the homes of each of Willow's siblings, uncover the clues hidden in each item and fight off the rival interests of competing criminals and the policefateful moment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781258422</amazonuk>1914585186}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison Jean LesterJennifer Mason|title= Yuki Means HappinessPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating= 34|genre= General Fiction|summary= High''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-tech and high-risepop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, kimonosa women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, and biga billionaire with a state-eyed visuals – through a dynamic juxtaposition of -the ultra modern and the traditional-art S&M dungeon, Japan has succeeded a man serving a life sentence in branding itself both as Alabama, an intriguing travel destination that does not cease to surpriseenigmatic signature, but at the same time defies being ever wholly full understood by outsiders. All of this has come to be encapsulated and reinforced in Sofia Coppola'K(s cult classic ''Lost , x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in TranslationGeorgia...'': the iconic still of Scarlett Johansson standing at the scramble crossing in Shibuya has come to represent Japan in pop culture as much as the more traditional cherry blossom imagery. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= S V Berlin|title= The Favourite|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=Siblings Edward and Isobel Vernon haven't spoken in years and live on opposite sides This is just a sample of the Atlantic. When their mother Mary dies unexpectedly, they are thrown together to sort through the family home. With Edward's diffident but devoted girlfriend, Julie, making an awkward threesome, each stumbles through the practicalities cast of funeral preparation characters and house clearingsettings in Preposterous. As you can see, trying to make sense some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of their emotions and their feelings toward one anotherthis mystery story goes like this.. Isobel makes a disturbing discovery and her fateful decision has consequences for all of them, challenging their beliefs about the past, hopes for the future and understanding of Mary's role in keeping them at once apart and together. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993563384</amazonuk>B09STS96HS