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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna KavennaJenny Lecoat|title=Come to the EdgeBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are fortunate enough to own a rural second home hideaway in celebrating the end of the UK, this beautifully written book will probably give you nightmaresoccupation. For During the rest of uswar, itJean's father was arrested for listening to a great readbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. The target for Joanna Kavenna's satire 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 unused propertytruth come as a relief, owned by or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the wealthy, depriving war? Who was the informer who told the local population of anywhere to live in Nazis about the places they radio? And what other secrets have grown up.been kept throughout the occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780872135</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon DenmanOnyi Nwabineli|title=ConnectedAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5
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|summary=DougAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, a maths and computing undergraduate at Essex University, has just pulled the most amazing girl. So hethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's not really that interested in the file of fractals research best friend Kal has just sent him. But while Doug and Cindy are busily getting it increasingly popular presence onsocial media, something has gone horribly wrong where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for Kal sponsorships and influencer deals and Doug emerges from afternoon delight to the horrific discovery that his friend has committed suicide, basically, monetary gain. Miles away Now Anuri is in the countryside, Peter her twenties and she is attending his brother's funeral. Martin was a musician but not a tortured artist slowly trying to regain her confidence and it seems inconceivable that he too would to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take his own lifedown the content about her. But the trip Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for Peterdoing so. Most importantly, she is more than a family obligation - itdesperately 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 chance of a break from a stale marriage and an opportunity to indulge in some guilty proximity to his newly-bereaved sister-in-law. same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0089YQPI0</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Feaver1529153298|title=An Inventory The List of HeavenSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary=Mavis Gaunt was evacuated to Shipleigh in Devon during World War II It's 1979 and went to live with her auntMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) It wasnShe's not what't just an escape from the dangers of London - it was a welcome relief from her parentss worrying Miv' loveless marriage and in her mind it became a heavenly retreats family, though. Women have been disappearing. In her twenties and with her mother dead there was nothing Well, they've been murdered, but to keep her in London have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she headed back 's overheard that her father wants to Shipleighmove the family 'Down South'. She struck up an unlikely friendship with Frances UpcottWhen you're from Yorkshire, one of three children of Down South is a reclusive farmer andfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, almost against the move would mean leaving her willbest friend, found herself drawn into the life of the farmSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. It gave She's not worried about the dangers or that her a sense of belonging but it ended in tragedyMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780330006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Amis1035906708|title=Lionel Asbo|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Martin Amis can be relied upon to create some pretty nasty, self-centred central characters. Usually they are upper class cads and bounders but in Lionel Asbo his central character is at the polar opposite in terms of class. He's violent, uncouth and ignorant. He's a criminal whose usual sidekicks are a pair of vicious pit bulls. His 'manner' is a fictitious down trodden area of London called Diston Town where he lives in a tower block with his nephew, Des, who in fact is the central character in the book. Des, in contrast is far more sympathetic - intelligent and kind, that is if you overlook the fact that as a 15 year old he had an affair with his grandmother, Lionel's mother. Hey, no one's perfect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096206</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDiva|author=Ben Fountain|title=Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkDaisy Goodwin
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|summary=In Ben Fountain's ''Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk''We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, Billy in December 1923 and what is left of his Bravo troop colleagues are back from the war in Iraq following a brave firefight caught on camera by embedded journalistsonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The US army, keen Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to gain PR from the event has brought them back on an optimistically titled 'Victory TourCallas' despite the fact that they are all to be re-deployed make it more manageable in the next weekStates. The majority of the book takes place on the last day of this tour when Billy is When she was back in his homeAthens -state of Texas, where the Bush link makes it even more prosupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -war, as she was raised under the boys are invited to attend that most American of PR events, the Thanksgiving football game at the Dallas Cowboys stadium. Accompanying the troop is Nazi occupation by a veteran Hollywood producer mother who has promised the soldiers that he can sell their story to a movie studio mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for mega-bucks. If only it were that simpleher elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857864386</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shams UddinAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Year from Jahannam|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Wright family begin a blog in January 2011. They all want to celebrate a new start after the turmoil of recent years. Father Richard had been a casualty of the financial crisis, working for Lehman Brothers at the time of its collapse, and the ensuing chaos had affected the entire family one way or another. But Richard retrained, secured a new job and has recently earned a huge bonus. At last the family are back on track and enjoying the fruits of hard labour. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957175205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jan Wallentin|title=Strindberg's StarPerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=Just The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as he is preparing for an appearance on alternative to all the online apps in providing a television showmore 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 stranger approaches Don Titelman and asks trip to Canada to get away for his helpa while. This manKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, Erik Hall, has recently discovered a mysterious body and so jumps at the bottom of a flooded mine shaftchance to come home to Edinburgh. Whilst perfectly preservedAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, medical checks confirm thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the man had been dead for nearly a hundred yearsIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. The deceased apparently committed suicide whilst holding on Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a metal ankh with some strange writings on it.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848879873</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasa Dragnic and Liesl Schillinger (translator)Dean Koontz|title=Every Day, Every HourThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=Dora and Luka meet Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and become firm friendshis house gets trashed. In normal situations one might add '' Oh, and someone has delivered a whole lot more'' really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to that sentencehis home, but Dora and Luka are in Kindergartenit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, which makes their intense relationship hard Benny is the very last person to definedeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. As they grow into adults, however, A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it becomes obvious turns out that there the delivery to his house is something between them and no matter how much theya new friend, or their circumstancesa bad weather friend called Spike, try who has been sent to fight this it help him since Benny is there and clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is not going to fade away. Dora’s parents move her across the continenttake care of Benny, careers develop and flourishwill 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 of nowhere who exactly they are enveloped by family lives, but still there is an invisible bond that draws them back to one another.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701186941</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gerry WellsKatherine Howe|title=Kicking the Hornets' NestA True Account
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|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=WWII books about the RAF Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and the Navy are quite commonbeing made to work there from a young age. Books about Special Operations Executive When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and similar organisations proliferatewatch. Stories about the army are fewer Enthralled and try as I might I really couldnhorrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy't think s death at the hands of one which was other than incidentally about tank crewtwo vicious pirates. She hides away, so when the opportunity came I ''had'that they don' t find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to read 'Kicking sea, dressing as a boy and joining the Hornetsnotorious Ned Low' Nest' particularly s pirate ship as it's written by an author who crewed a Sherman tank in Operation Overlord, back in June 1944cabin boy. I had just a couple She soon finds herself in the thick of nagging doubts. It's things when there is a book of short stories. Would I find it easy to pick mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up - and out down again? The big worry was whether or not this was going to be a macho action story, which wouldn't really be my cup in her rip roaring tale of tea at alllife on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780881568</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Solomon1471180158|title=Hilary and DavidMaybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=34.5
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|summary=HilaryJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a single mother of two troublesome boys meets David, an elderly writer control freak with problems all the subtlety of his own, through Facebooka half brick. It’s an odd beginning – they have a mutual friend Jamie's son, so one adds the otherBo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and then they start chatting quite spontaneously – but sets the scene well for their atypical relationship. Hilary’s in New Zealandmore you read, David’s in Londonthe more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. They are many decades apart Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in age but are clearly both quite lonely the local A&E and looking for someone sometimes Bo's not fit enough to talk go toschool. So, with Missed shifts or the vague anonymity of social networking need to be away on their side, they reach out time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to one anothera head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881993296</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lionel ShriverB0CKD1L5JL|title=The New RepublicRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=34|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Lionel Shriver adds a beard-shaped appendage to Southern Portugal in The New Republic Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and immediately has it fighting for independencebusy human society, taking a wry look at terrorism as well as in the ethics forests of the international press corpsWashington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a series of international terrorism actsbrief sojourn in human company, the Os Soldados Ousados De Barbaand armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, or Petr goes on a journey through the SOB for shortforest, have gone quiet at the same time as charismatic journalist Barrington Sadler has vanished without a trace. Insecure former lawyer Edgar Kellogg steps into Barrington's post: Kellogg on broadcasting the hunt for serial killersstrange, as it werewild and rarely heard voices he encounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007459807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne SwardSarah Marsh|title=BreathlessA Sign of Her Own
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=There are those 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 Graham Bell who say thathas been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on an individual levelother inventions and ideas, books are like Marmite: you love it or you hate itand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. Oh, if only it were so easy|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'Breathless'' s not easy being a black girl whose skin is one of those that I neither love nor hate84% 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, and yet am not totally uninspired by eithershe even allowed him to give her a lift home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Cleave1472263936|title=GoldThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=45
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|summary=Novels It was in 1968 that feature sport often put people off reading themHelena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, particularly but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if you are not au fait with Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the sport family apartment in questionup-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. However, while She grew to love her grandmother and the characters in Chris Cleavefamily's ''Gold'' are athletesmaid, Dina, specifically cyclists aiming for the 2012 London Olympicsbut was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, it's more about the characters themselvesretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. In fact, if you are looking for a book He was proud of his close connections to read the Junta and expected his family to avoid the brouhaha of the Olympics this year uphold his values but still want saw no reason to get a taste of what all the fuss is about, this would be a superb choiceaccommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963433</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author=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 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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan LeeB0BVDC2VWH|title=JoyThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank|rating=54
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|summary=Very stylishThe village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homes, observant and oh so spikyeven gallows, this if needed. The fear of being buried alive is an incredibleexistential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, often uncomfortable novel that you just can't put downa drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is tolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda FranceB0BYF82CXT|title=That Summer at Hill FarmSemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone
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|summary=If you were to pass Hill Farm you would think it the perfect country idyll with lambs ''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in the fieldsa depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, children playing successful and the farmhouse nestled very much in love – move in the folds of the hillsnext door. The truth though is Despite their different. Farmer Hayes loves outlooks on life, the land, but he's no farmercouples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. His wife But all is neglected not what it seems, and it's not that long since Isabel miscarried her fourth childtheir increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy. She loves her children but she's not a particularly good housewife - or wife. She and Hayes were rather bounced into marriage by her aging and doting parents. Now she's trapped in a house with death-watch beetle and a husband who is struggling to keep the farm going.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555131</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sylvie NickelsShalini Boland|title=The Other Side of SilenceSilent Bride|rating=3.5
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|summary=Pippa Eastman went to Australia to get away from her domineering father, the historian Joseph Eastman Alice and it was there that Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she met Judehas been searching for; handsome, the son of two Ten Pound Pomsaccomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. Their relationship was goodShe is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, but not exactly committed on either side. It was about having fun. Familial ties were surprisingly strong though successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and when Joseph Eastman developed Alzheimer's Disease Pippa returned to the UK to care for himwedding is planned and set. Slightly to her surpriseWhen the much-anticipated day arrives, Jude followed her - determined to track Alice is walked down the alcoholic aisle by her father who had left him , 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 mother in Australia. Itapproaching bride, Alice's only after her father's death that Pippa finds herself in search of world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her father's life - and trying to establish that he wasn't a murdererbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781762686</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Nicholson1787636003|title=The Golden HourGirls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
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|summary=Maggie is nervous about committing 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 a live-take an interest in relationshipher, terrified by the idea that there must be something better out thereshe was flattered rather than wary. Dean is terrified It was quite a while before he made any sort of losing the love of his life physical approach to her and old Mrs Dickinson is just, well, terrifiedby that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry is frustrated by rabbits in Taylor, looking after his garden, Alan is frustrated by work, interests on the island and Liz is frustrated by old Mrs Dickinson, who is her mother..in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849163936</amazonuk>
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{{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 day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her 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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Glattauer152915118X|title=Love VirtuallyPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
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|summary=When Emmi sends ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and email George are sisters and Sasha is married to cancel their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a magazine subscription, Stockton by birth so she has no idea what a slight typo in isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the email address will lead to – a life-changingclan matriarch, potentially marriage-wreckingTilda, all-consuming online love affair with asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the man whom she emails in errorPineapple Street property. What starts as an insignificant, casual message quickly becomes something much more important to both her Tilda and Leo as two people who Chip have never met start renovated and downsized to share their secrets and wishesanother property, a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, dreams so Sasha and fears with each otherCord can move straight in. Nominally, not just because they can had a choice but, that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it seems, because so often that they have abbreviate it to'the GD'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050958</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan ClarkEmily Critchley|title=RoryOne Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing 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. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. 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. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's Boysdisappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt
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|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Rory Blaine''Love, grandson of Lady Sybil Blaine is gay, free, single and loving it, as he tells himself a dozen times a day. He may be middle aged but he's still got it. HeI's a partner in a successful advertising firm and sod read, so over having been thrown out of home when he was supposed to be a teenager; yes, over it – totally light and completely. When he hears his grandmother is dyingweightless feeling, he decides it's time to remind her (and her considerable wealth) of his existence. The tardy but intensive attention seems to pay off when heI had always longed for gravity's left the ancestral pile. But the stately home wasn't left to him quite in the way that he thought. There are so many strings attached it resembles a marionette: if he wants to keep it he must transform it into the first retirement home for elderly gay gentlemen and he also seems to have acquired his first resident, whether he's wanted or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906413886</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eliza Graham0008506337|title=The History RoomGarnett Girls|author=Georgina Moore
|rating=5
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|summary=The novel begins with a key scene from Meredith’s childhood love affair between Margo Garnett and then springs forward to the present day and the incident poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in the history roomlove. The prank sets the tone for the whole novel – sinister in many subtle ways Richard was twenty-one and having several layers of meaningdescribed by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. The cast assemble around the fall out Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from the prank what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and each character is beautifully drawnhaving a glittering career. Hugh In the event, Meredith’s husband, is suffering they eloped and Richard took her away from the results Isle of horrors he experienced in HelmandWight. Meredith’s immediate family are also traumatised by the death of her mother Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. In this highly charged atmosphere The couple had three children: Rachel, it’s hard to know whether they are taking the prank too seriously or if it does indeed imply worrying occurrences within the schoolImogen and Sasha. Add Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the presence of strangers in family home on the form Isle of new pupils and new staff, and before long even Wight. Even then the most long-held relationships begin doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to suffer as a result of all the suspicions that are brought out by the prankleave him in charge''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330509276</amazonuk>Then Richard left them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chuck Palahniuk1914585402|title=Invisible Monsters RemixDashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F Ross
|rating=4.5
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|summary='Don't expect this to be the kind of story that goes: and then, and then, and then.' And yet... Once upon a time I collected a couple of Palahniuk books, upon his first, ''Fight Club'reviewed David F Ross'-inspired flush of British success, and never got round to reading them. And then the s book reviewing gods conspired to give me [[Pygmy There's Only One Danny Garvey by Chuck PalahniukDavid F Ross|PygmyThere's Only One Danny Garvey]], [[Tell-All a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by Chuck Palahniuk|Tell-All]] how powerful and [[Damned by Chuck Palahniuk|Damned]] to peruseaffecting it was. And then I still didn't go back through his past works. But then he revised Invisible MonstersIt was a gripping, his second-written and third-published novelemotionally wounding read, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I got to look at might not have lavished enough praise on it after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575051</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcello FoisLucy Ashe|title=Memory of the AbyssClara and Olivia|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=We The year is 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 Sardiniastage, over either. Because there's a hundred years agolot that builds a dancer. It is a land of legendSome things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, where storytellers can see a different nature attention to the moon each night detail – and convey some things, that in their earthly stories. It's a world of wonder'je ne sais quoi'', where sheep can fall that don't come from the skies for more than one reasonclassroom. It's a poor landA stage presence, where lads are expected to be responsible shepherds by the time they are ten. As a result people look after each other - exceptcharm, while returning from a Christening Samuele and his father are refused basic hospitality''joie de vivre''. Later when the boy runs away one night the land falls away beneath him The difference between a hard- yet he finds a girl to ground him to this earth. Which is most relevant when he goes to warworker, and particularly when he comes back and finds himself a wronged man, and in need of vengeance..star.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906694001</amazonuk>0861544080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francis BennettHeather Fawcett|title=The Crabber StoriesEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=John White was known to everyone as Crabber - a nickname which he once earned Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and which then stuck - she has travelled extensively, and he grew up on researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the shores very first encyclopaedia of Long Island in the nineteen-fiftiesfaeries. It was a close-knit community Whilst she is brilliant at research and a time when children had more freedom than they are likely speaking to be allowed nowfaeries, she is not so good with people. We watch as Crabber grows from being a boy still suffering from So when she finds herself far, far North in the death small village of his elder brother when we first met him through Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to a time when he's old enough to go on a hunting trip redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the mainland with a local familyright track. He tells his own storiesEnter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, as truthfully as much to Emily's frustration. But why is he can and here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the sort of insight which children have before life injects its cynicism.faerie folk around Hravsnik?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00737IKIW</amazonuk>0356519120
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Belinda Seaward1398515388|title=The Beautiful TruthBoy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=There are two parallel story lines in Belinda Seaward's ''The Beautiful Truth'': one set First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the present day ocean floor, which created the tsunami and one this, in wartime Polandturn, caused the nuclear meltdown. Both involve love stories The result was complete and personal strugglesutter devastation. The deaths were uncountable, and there are repeating themes such as horses and the stars loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that effectively provide links between many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list of priorities but - six months after the two in this clearly welltsunami -researched Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and engrossing narrativeTamon the dog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719521114</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=EL JamesChristopher Bowden|title=Fifty Shades FreedMr Magenta
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When the [[Fifty Shades Of Grey Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by EL James|first]] book in her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a trilogy is outstandingly awesome, safe harbour and the [[Fifty Shades Darker by EL James|second]] is pretty darn excellent, a little bit of indulgence to read the final instalment is a no-brainer really. And, I suspect that is why this book is selling so well, because while it’s young nephew had had a mildly much more interesting reading, in my mind life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it didn’t come close seems to him an obligation to the first two offerings in terms of intriguing characters, a suspense filled plot or general ''kinky-fuckery''find it all out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099579944</amazonuk>B0B6Z9VJDW
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ShipsteadJennifer Mason|title=Seating ArrangementsPartitions of Unity
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Weddings are always Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled a potential source for intrigue and dramaseries of disappearances. In Maggie Shipstead's debut novel, ''Seating Arrangements'', there's plenty Partitions of that going on. Set in a New England island called Waskeke, Winn Van MeterUnity's eldest daughter, Daphne, who is already heavily pregnant is about to marry Greyson Duff. The problems start when Daphne's retinue of bridesmaids, who include her sister, Livia, who has had her heart broken by she sets her first love mind to the son of Winn's social arch rival, and the flirtatious Agatha mix with Greyson's brotherssolving a murder.. Add in the fact that Winn has always had a yearning for Agatha and things get decidedly messy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000742521X</amazonuk>B09LQR9FRF
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{{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=The 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 fateful moment.|isbn= 1914585186}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony ParsonsJennifer Mason|title=Catching the SunPreposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Tom Finn had been ''A struggling poetry zine, a builder, but bankruptcy intervened mom-and taxi driving provided some sort of living for him-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, his wifea 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, Tess and twins Rory and Keeva. And so it might have continued but a women's track coach with a yen for two burglars in his home. Tom 'confronted' them - and nearly went to jailbullwhips, but his conviction mean that taxi driving was no longer an option. Then a chance encounter brought him billionaire with a state-of-the offer of another driving job - but this one was art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Phuket in Thailand - and included accommodation. There'Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s , x), on a saying that if something seems too good to be true then it probably ischeap oil painting, but when youan erotic art dealer in Georgia...'re as close to the bottom as Tom Finn there comes a time when you've got to take This is just a chance sample of the cast of characters and hope that settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this is your lucky daymystery story goes like this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007327811</amazonuk>B09STS96HS
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