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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is 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= Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiOnyi Nwabineli|title= KintuAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'Kintus childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It' opens with unbridled authority 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=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and mercilessnessonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. In just Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. 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 few pages mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a man has been hunted down dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an angry mob alternative to all the online apps in Ugandaproviding a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He Katie is then brained coming out of a break up with a concrete slab; his woman is left in widowhood bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and has the hard task of dealing Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her manabilities, and there's debtalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4. Blood flows easily5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and quicklyhis house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, when your familyand it's steps are haunted by 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 curse nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that spans generationsthe 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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786073773</amazonuk>1662500491

 <!-- Vaughan -->*[[image:Vaughan Scandal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471164993?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164993]] ===[[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book. [[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Dean -->*[[image:Dean Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607253X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607253X]] ===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Tuva Moodyson works for a local paper in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Mother, but desperate for the big break that will have her moving on to pastures new. Just outside of her town, Gavrik, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped out. They bring back dark memories for a town that has seen this crime before - and Tuva is desperate to find the killer. At first, she's just out to write a good story - but as the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secrets. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle de KretserKatherine Howe|title=The Life to ComeA True Account|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Life Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to Come'' tells the story of several ''interesting'' characters live with a family who are all linked by one person: Pipparun an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. The novel When she hears there is split into five chapters with each one focusing on to be a different personhanging of some pirates in the town, from Cassie she decides to go and her bizarre relationship with Ash to George who has finished his thesis watch. Enthralled and is horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the process hands of writing his first noveltwo vicious pirates. Pippa She hides away, who is also a writerso that they don't find and kill her too, appears in each of these chaptersand then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, in some cases just dressing as a background character. However, what I found most fascinating about this novel was that de Kretser tells boy and joining the story of Pippanotorious Ned Low's life through all these various appearances and leaves pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the reader with a real sense thick of who she things when there is as a person mutiny on board, and having watched from there we are caught up in her development as a characterrip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760296708</amazonuk>0861547438

{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Servants of the UndergroundMaybe Tomorrow|author=David SsembajjoPenny Parkes|rating=34.5

|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine Jamie Matson works in his own countryan upper-class grocery store, Kalamchi leaves to travel and learn. He returns for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a burning desire to feed half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his people - but not only to feed their stomachs but to feed their minds, tooproblems'. Kalamchi wants to raise his people He's consciousness so asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that they can fight against he's on the dictator Bamutu autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - chillingly known as she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo'president for life s not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and after death''put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Rob MurphyB0CKD1L5JL|title=Rotten to the CoreRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn

|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=It's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that Petr is, until England stick their oar inan orphan. They have solved their hooligan problemRescued by the strange, and improved their transport systemreclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is Francebusy human society, who have to reciprocate with in the Russians who helped them get France forests of Washington'98, and they have a plans Olympic Peninsula. At this stage the UEFA European championship of 2016 has not been awarded, After Bear dies and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countriesbrief sojourn in human company, separated by 200 miles and without armed with only a brilliant connection from one to the otherpirate radio transmitter, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hosts. But what if France could persuade the world it was Petr goes on a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all journey through the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damagedforest, meaning England '18 would be dead in broadcasting the waterstrange, wild and Russia would win outrarely heard voices he encounters. And who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->Frontpage|author=Paul StidolphSarah Marsh|title=Forests in the SaharaA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort After a bout of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words scarlet fever as a man can hear from his new partnerchild, but she doesn't lie in this instanceEllen Lark loses her hearing. He is Jeffrey Harvey, Suddenly plunged into a young Cambridge professorworld of silence, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purifiedeverything about her life changes. Get an iceberg or three worth Living in a time when the use of H2O near Africasign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where clean water she is still a scarce resourcetaught to lip read, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneurbut physically restrained from signing. If From here, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-she ends up involved in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the project, deaf and using a finance officer embezzling system called Visible Speech. At the funds for gambling - ohsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder ideas, and theft of research data on Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a case reaching back several years. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage complicated tangle of possible sticky ends..espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1546282351</amazonuk>1035401614

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John BanksB0BC3YTCMR|title= WGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking ''This story is discovered frozen - not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationweeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, unmoored and with his world suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in turmoilcase it's contagious. Beginning a journey westward, he It's filled with not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a desire 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 wreak vengeance on the individuals his house and he finds morally corruptraped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ellen Wiles1472263936|title=The Invisible CrowdFigurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows the plight of Eritrean Yonas Kelati as he tries It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to make a life for himself in EnglandGreece. He and a good friend She was alone: her mother, GebreGreek by birth, escape from prison only had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be thrown into captivity again: trafficked in a shellfish factory where they have to earn their ‘payment’ pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the malicious Aziz for entering family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the UK illegallyfirst of several annual visits. When Yonas escapes She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the story really startsJunta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228817</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony PeakeDean Koontz|title= North FacingAfter Death|rating= 4.53|genre= General Fiction|summary=At school Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in Pretoria a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in 1962a makeshift mortuary, Paul Harvey struggles to fit covered in - desperate plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to join him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the popular group no matter what it may takeshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. His focus on surviving the perils of school so intense As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he fails to see the turbulence in both South Africa can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the larger world villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - with the arrest of Nelson Mandela its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and the Cuban Missile Crisis affecting the actions its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the adults around himforest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if needed. A new and charismatic teacher decides to educate the boys in the unstable situation The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the world outside - and a growing awareness of both that village and his sexuality pushes Paul Harvey into decisions that he later comes to regret - and their weight pushes him to return to South Africa in is the present day reason Volushka, a drunken, self- indulgent, lazy lout of a man in his sixties keen to make sense of a troubled and utterly fascinating pastis tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995590028</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Abi CurtisB0BYF82CXT|title= Water & GlassSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something has happened, something very nasty ''Bill and on Amanda are living in a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only semi-detached house, stuck in a handful depressing rut of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Craneboredom and disappointment, a vetwhen Terry and Fiona – glamorous, as she remembers recent eventssuccessful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, looks after the animals couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is not what it seems, and falls into a world of intriguetheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joe HillShalini Boland|title= Strange WeatherThe Silent Bride|rating= 53|genre= Horror General Fiction|summary= Strange Weather 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 collection of four short novels all linked bywife; beautiful, unsurprisinglysuccessful, strange confident… and cataclysmic weather. Each novel so the inevitable proposal is distinct eagerly accepted by Alice and showcases Hill's restrained yet vivid style which takes everyday events the wedding is planned and makes them bitinglyset. When the much-anticipated day arrives, acerbically macabre or blindingly beautifulAlice is walked down the aisle by her father, often switching from one sentence beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to the next. As Hill himself says celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice''the beauty of the s world and implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the horror of man at the world were twined together''altar is, never who is this truer than in Strange Weather where moments of abject horror are coupled with raw beautywaiting for her to become his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147322117X</amazonuk>1662507089

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Mitchell1787636003|title=The Maid's RoomGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop

|summary=In some apartments 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 Singapore you'll find her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a bomb shelter - airless while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and without a windowby that time she was obsessed by him. It will probably house 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|genre=General Fiction|summary= 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 washing machine day and capture it, crafting an image of the other domestic paraphernalia country as it stands in one particular moment. To say thatAmanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's got nowhere else to gopractically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. There'll be She has such a mattress on gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the floor lives of this stifling roomher characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the heat increased by the tumble dryerstory of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. This Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the maid's roomtribe. ItThe problem's possibly better than sleeping under exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the dining room tablePineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so away, but not by muchwhich they own. Back in 2009 there were 201They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street,000 female domestic workers so Sasha and Cord can move straight in Singapore. Nominally, many not earning any money for they had a year until they've repaid 'trainingchoice but that wasn' t the reality. Darley and other fees Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the agency, many gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the maid's roomGD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Scoop of the YearEmily Critchley|authortitle=Tom ClaverOne Puzzling Afternoon

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Martin 84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Reviewfacing a move 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. Martin However, Edie is good at his job - accuratetormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, dedicatedwho went missing over 60 years ago, hardworking and with the worry that there was a good nose secret she was keeping for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the culture truth of what happened all that comes with reportingtime ago. He has a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn After 'seeing't want to waste time and money Lucy in the pubhigh street, talking macho nonsense with just as she was the other hacks. He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacylast time she saw her, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyesshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. Tom doesn't just grab And yet as she remembers the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to industrial correspondentday life. And that is Will she uncover the job Martin not only wantedtruth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, but needed.and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036220</amazonuk>1804181250

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithMadelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008506337|title=The Good Pilot Peter WoodhouseGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore

|summary=If youThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novelLeary was all-consuming, but have always thought you might like to try, one day then this might be the book to start withapparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Rather than face the daunting task of leaping into Richard was twenty-one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and it gives a good flavour of AMSdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's style, the way he can write influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to evoke Oxford and having a feeling of time and placeglittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the warm optimism underlying his words that is so very reassuring Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and comforting went on to readbecome a well-respected journalist. It calls itself 'a wartime romance', which it isThe couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and yet it is much more than that besidesSasha. Focussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling Life was lived in love with an American pilotLondon and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Mike Rogersthe family home on the Isle of Wight. Thanks to a sheepdog on ValEven then the doubts about Richard's farm (the Peter Woodhouse drinking were never far from the title) their lives become entwined with that of a German soldier, and the book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the yearsMargo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846974097</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Krysten Ritter1914585402|title= BonfireDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the townI reviewed David F Ross's book [[There's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to BarrensOnly One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There' biggest scandal from more than s Only One Danny Garvey]] a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell couple of years back and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and she begins to doubt her own observationsaffecting it was. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--It was a ritual called ''The Gamegripping,'' it will threaten the reputationsemotionally wounding read, and lives, rereading my review of the community and risk exposing a darkness it my main takeaway was that may consume herI might not have lavished enough praise on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524759848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alice HoffmanLucy Ashe|title= The Rules of MagicClara and Olivia|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of Alice HoffmanThe year is 1933. The place? Sadler's novelsWells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, although strangelywe learn, on the inside. And not the one sheon stage, either. Because there's most famous for ''Practical Magic''a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, which went on attention to be made into a film. detail – and some things, that ''The Rules of Magicje ne sais quoi'' is the long-awaited prequel to , that book, and tells the story of three siblings of don't come from the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincentclassroom. The two sistersA stage presence, Franny and Jeta charm, go on to become the two aunts in the a ''Practical Magicjoie de vivre'' story. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471157679</amazonuk>0861544080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen FryHeather Fawcett|title= Mythos: A Retelling Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of the Myths of Ancient GreeceFaeries|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths areEmily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, arguablyto write her life's work, the greatest stories ever toldvery first encyclopaedia of faeries. So old Whilst she is brilliant at research and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditionsspeaking to faeries, yet remain relatable and readable millennia latershe is not so good with people. Here comedian So when she finds herself far, actorfar North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, television presenterhaving somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent nor how to these special stories redeem herself and recreates them with a witput her final investigations for her book back on the right track. Enter Wendell Bambleby, warmth her dashingly handsome and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the honour insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and respect that such ancient and influential stories deservedelight, much to Emily's frustration. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718188721</amazonuk>0356519120

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)1398515388|title=The Temptation to Be HappyBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|summary=Cesare is 77First of all, widowedit was the earthquake, generally ignored by deep in the ocean floor, which created the offspring he likes tsunami and bothered too much by this, in turn, caused the one he doesn'tnuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. StillThe deaths were uncountable, he finds ways to fill his daysand the loss of livelihoods was widespread. If he's not taking advantage The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of his friendpriorities but -withsix months after the tsunami -benefits arrangement with aging lady of Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the night Rossana, or keeping an eye on convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his grandson, hecar door and Tamon the dog jumped in.}} {{Frontpage|author=Christopher Bowden|title=Mr Magenta|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Christopher Bowden's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman) 's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy). Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when a little bit of indulgence to a young couple move into the apartment block providing Cesare with nephew had had a concern much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and the conviction that he has it seems to him an obligation to do something, whatever the fall find it all out or personal danger.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786072882</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lars Mytting Jennifer Mason|title=Partitions of Unity|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of Unity'', she sets her mind to solving a murder...|isbn=B09LQR9FRF}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=The Sixteen Trees of Daves 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 Sommefateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4.5

|summary=While his grandfather lived ''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparentsNorthern California redwoods, having survived a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace2004 Olympics, his mothera women's nametrack coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that'art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia... Edvard '' This is determined to solve just a sample of the puzzlecast of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, a determination that some keeping up will take him away from his native Norway to an area be required! The basic premise of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsthis mystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>B09STS96HS