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[[Category:New Reviews|General Fiction]]==General fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kerry HudsonJenny Lecoat|title=Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My MaBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54
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|summary=Janie Ryan is born into a definitely underprivileged familyJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Despite a mother who tries to make During the right decisionswar, growing up becomes Jean's father was arrested for listening to a fight for survival (both figuratively banned radio and literally) as Janie encounters social servicessoldiers took him away one night, tough schoolsleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, domestic violence and an array of 'uncles'the war is finally over, all promising a better future their hopes rise that seems as tangible 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 holy grail.occupation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701186399</amazonuk>1846976537
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen MacInnesOnyi Nwabineli|title=Above SuspicionAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
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|summary=In Anuri spent her childhood on display to the summer world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of 1939 Oxford professor Richard Myles Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and his wife Frances were preparing for their annual European holiday when they were visited by an old friend who had a request for them, basically, monetary gain. Would they start their holiday Now Anuri is in Paris, meet a man there her twenties and then continue their holiday as he directed? There was a great deal of tension in Europe she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and Richard Myles was reluctant to undertake the taskget her life back, mainly because he didn't want suing her step-mother to put his wife at risktake down the content about her. Frances had other ideasAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, but not even they were above suspicionundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. At first they were watched but Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the attentions new focus of some shadowy figures became more pressing as they realised that pre-war Germany was not a comfortable place to beOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781161534</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Drew Thomas1529153298|title=CurtainsThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|summary=Danny It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a performer on London’s cabaret circuitPrime 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 his hard work isn’t doing much for his statusto 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 he meets Veronicayou're from Yorkshire, who promises to make him Down South is a starfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, he never guesses Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that this might be too good to be true. Rapidly falling in love with her – She's not worried about the dangers or so he thinks – soon his life revolves around doing that her bidding. But Veronica is a more complex individual than Danny could ever have imagined Mum's stopped talking - and her forcefulness will lead them both down an unimaginable pathto anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957187807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Kavenna1035906708|title=Come to the EdgeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|summary=If you are fortunate enough We tend to own a rural second home hideaway think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in the UKManhattan, New York, this beautifully written book will probably give you nightmaresin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. For the rest of us, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed itto 's a great readCallas' to make it more manageable in the States. The target When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for Joanna Kavenna's satire is her voice - she was raised under the unused property, owned Nazi occupation by the wealthya mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, depriving the local population of anywhere to live in the places they have grown upJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780872135</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon DenmanAlexander McCall Smith|title=ConnectedThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5
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|summary=DougThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a maths and computing undergraduate at Essex Universitymore personal, tailored service. Ness has just pulled asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the most amazing girlbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. So he's not really that interested in the file Katie is coming out of fractals research best friend Kal has just sent him. But while Doug and Cindy are busily getting it ona break up with a bad boyfriend, something has gone horribly wrong for Kal and Doug emerges so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from afternoon delight Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the horrific discovery that his friend 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 committed suicide. Miles away full confidence in the countrysideher abilities, Peter is attending his brotherand there's funeralalways 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. Martin was 5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a musician but not terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a tortured artist really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it seems inconceivable 's possible that he too would take whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his own lifehouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. But So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the tripdelivery to his house is a new friend, for Petera bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is more than clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a family obligation - itgood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's the chance of enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a break from a stale marriage and an opportunity to indulge in some guilty proximity to his newly-bereaved sister-in-lawwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0089YQPI0</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane FeaverKatherine Howe|title=An Inventory of HeavenA True Account|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mavis Gaunt was evacuated to Shipleigh Hannah Masury is living in Devon during World War II and went Boston, having been sent to live with her aunt. It wasn't just a family who run an escape inn, and being made to work there from the dangers of London - it was a welcome relief from her parents' loveless marriage and in her mind it became a heavenly retreatyoung age. In her twenties and with her mother dead When she hears there was nothing is to keep her be a hanging of some pirates in London so the town, she headed back decides to Shipleighgo and watch. She struck up an unlikely friendship with Frances Upcott, one of three children of a reclusive farmer Enthralled andhorrified in equal measure, almost against her will, found Hannah finds herself drawn into embroiled in a young boy's death at the life hands of the farmtwo vicious pirates. It gave She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a sense cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of belonging but it ended things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in tragedyher rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780330006</amazonuk>0861547438
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Amis1471180158|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>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Ben Fountain|title=Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkPenny Parkes
|rating=4.5
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|summary=In Ben FountainJamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'Billy Lynn. He's Long Halftime Walk'', Billy asthmatic 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 journalists. The US armymore you read, keen to gain PR from the event has brought them back on an optimistically titled more you'Victory Tourll suspect that he' despite s on the fact that they are all autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to be retake time off at short notice -deployed she's a frequent flier in the next weeklocal A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. The majority of Missed shifts or the book takes place need to be away on the last day of this tour time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Billy is Jamie can be controlled and put in his home-state of Texas, where the Bush link makes it even more pro-war, as the boys are invited wrong. It was going to attend that most American of PR events, the Thanksgiving football game at the Dallas Cowboys stadium. Accompanying the troop is a veteran Hollywood producer who has promised the soldiers that he can sell their story come to a movie studio for mega-bucks. If only it were that simplehead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857864386</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shams UddinB0CKD1L5JL|title=The Year from JahannamRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=3.54
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|summary=The Wright family begin a blog in January 2011Petr is an orphan. They all want to celebrate a new start after Rescued by the turmoil of recent years. Father Richard had been a casualty of the financial crisisstrange, working for Lehman Brothers at the time of its collapsereclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the ensuing chaos had affected the entire family one way or anotherforests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. But Richard retrained After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human company, secured and armed with only a new job and has recently earned pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a huge bonus. At last journey through the forest, broadcasting the family are back on track strange, wild and enjoying the fruits of hard labourrarely heard voices he encounters. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957175205</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jan WallentinSarah Marsh|title=Strindberg's StarA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Just After a bout of scarlet fever as he is preparing for an appearance on a television showchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a stranger approaches Don Titelman and asks for his helpworld of silence, everything about her life changes. This man, Erik Hall, has recently discovered Living in a mysterious body at time when the bottom use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a flooded mine shaftschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Whilst perfectly preservedFrom here, medical checks confirm she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the man had been dead for nearly deaf and using a hundred yearssystem called Visible Speech. The deceased apparently committed suicide whilst holding At the same time, Bell is working on to other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a metal ankh with some strange writings on itcomplicated tangle of espionage.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848879873</amazonuk>1035401614
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasa Dragnic and Liesl Schillinger (translator)B0BC3YTCMR|title=Every Day, Every HourGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira
|rating=4.5
|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=Dora and Luka meet and become firm friends. In normal situations one might add ''and a whole lot more'' to that sentence, but Dora and Luka are in Kindergarten, which makes their intense relationship hard to define. As they grow into adults, however, it becomes obvious that there is something between them and no matter how much they, or their circumstances, try to fight this it is there and This story is not going to fade awayfor everyone. Dora’s parents move her across the continent, careers develop and flourish, out of nowhere they are enveloped by family lives, but still there is an invisible bond that draws them back to one another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186941</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Solomon1472263936|title=Hilary and DavidThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=3.5
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|summary=Hilary, a single It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother of two troublesome boys meets David, an elderly writer with problems of his own, through Facebook. It’s an odd beginning – they have a mutual friendGreek by birth, so one adds had left the otherfamily home and refused to return, but Mary and then they start chatting quite spontaneously – but sets Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the scene well for their atypical relationshipfirst of several annual visits. Hilary’s in New Zealand She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, David’s in Londonretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. They are many decades apart in age but are clearly both quite lonely He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and looking for someone expected his family to talk uphold his values but saw no reason toaccommodate them. So, with the vague anonymity of social networking on their side, they reach out to one another His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881993296</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lionel ShriverDean Koontz|title=The New RepublicAfter Death
|rating=3
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Lionel Shriver adds Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a beard-shaped appendage to Southern Portugal virus is released in The New Republic and immediately has it fighting for independence, taking a wry look at terrorism as well as the ethics of the international press corpsbio-hazard accident. After Finding himself in a series of international terrorism actsmakeshift mortuary, the Os Soldados Ousados De Barbacovered in plastic, or the SOB for shorthe has a sense that something very, have gone quiet very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the same time as charismatic journalist Barrington Sadler has vanished without a traceshrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. Insecure former lawyer Edgar Kellogg steps into Barrington's post: Kellogg on the hunt for serial killers As he recovers his senses, as it were. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007459807</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Sward|title=Breathless|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=There are those who say he realises that, on an individual level, books are like Marmite: you love it or you hate itthere is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. Oh, if only it were so easy''Everything''. Michael isn't ''BreathlessMichael'' is one of those that I neither love nor hate, and yet am not totally uninspired by eitheranymore. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051032</amazonuk>1662500467}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris CleaveB0BVDC2VWH|title=GoldThe Grave Listeners|author=William Frank
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|summary=Novels that feature sport often put people off reading them, particularly if you are not au fait with The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the sport in questionvillagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. However, while The black wood of the characters in Chris Cleave's ''Gold'' are athletesforest provides heat and warmth, specifically cyclists aiming for the 2012 London Olympicsroofs on homes, it's more about the characters themselves. In factand even gallows, if you are looking for a book to read to avoid needed. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the brouhaha of village and that is the Olympics this year but still want to get reason Volushka, a taste drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of what all the fuss a man is about, this would be a superb choicetolerated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963433</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan LeeB0BYF82CXT|title=JoySemi-Detached|author=Deborah Stone|rating=54
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|summary=Very stylish''Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached house, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom and disappointment, when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, observant successful and oh so spikyvery much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks on life, this the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for both pairs. But all is an incrediblenot what it seems, often uncomfortable novel that you just canand their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedy.''t put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miranda FranceShalini Boland|title=That Summer at Hill FarmThe Silent Bride|rating=43
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|summary=If you were to pass Hill Farm you would think it the perfect country idyll with lambs in the fields, children playing Alice and the farmhouse nestled Seth are a match made in the folds of the hillsheaven. The truth though He is differenteverything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. Farmer Hayes loves the land, but She is all he's no farmer. His could possibly want in a wife ; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is neglected planned and it's not that long since Isabel miscarried her fourth childset. She loves her children but she's not a particularly good housewife When the much- or wife. She and Hayes were rather bounced into marriage anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her aging father, beaming with pride and doting parents. Now excitement as shesurveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's trapped in a house with death-watch beetle and a husband world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is struggling waiting for her to keep the farm goingbecome his wife.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555131</amazonuk>1662507089
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sylvie Nickels1787636003|title=The Other Side Girls of SilenceSummer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=3.5
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|summary=Pippa Eastman went to Australia to get away from her domineering father, It was the historian Joseph Eastman and it was there summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she met Jude, and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the son of two Ten Pound Pomsisland. Their relationship Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was good, but not exactly committed on either sideperhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was about having fun. Familial ties were surprisingly strong though quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and when Joseph Eastman developed Alzheimer's Disease Pippa returned to the UK to care for by that time she was obsessed by him. Slightly to her surpriseAlistair worked for Henry Taylor, Jude followed her - determined to track down looking after his interests on the alcoholic father who had left him island and his mother in Australia. It's only after her father's death that Pippa finds herself particular in search of her father's life - and trying to establish that he wasn't a murdererthe bar where all the girls either worked or partied.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781762686</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonAmanda Craig|title=The Golden HourThree Graces|rating=4.5
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|summary=Maggie is nervous Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly compelling about committing to a live-in relationshipany writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, terrified by crafting an image of the idea country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that there must Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be something better out thereembarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. Dean is terrified She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of losing the love day into the lives of his life her characters in a way that feels natural and old Mrs Dickinson is just, well, terrified. Henry is frustrated by rabbits lived-in his garden, Alan is frustrated by work, and Liz is frustrated by old Mrs Dickinsonnever making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, who is her mother..grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849163936</amazonuk>140871468X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Glattauer152915118X|title=Love VirtuallyPineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When Emmi sends ''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and email Sasha is married to cancel their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isn't a magazine subscriptionStockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, she has no idea what a slight typo in Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the email address will lead Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to – another property, a life-changingstreet or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, potentially marriage-wreckingso Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, all-consuming online love affair with they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the man whom she emails gold digger'. She's living in error''their'' family home. What starts They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One 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 an insignificanther son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, casual message quickly becomes something much more important as Edie is starting to both lose her and Leo as two people memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who have never met start to share their secrets and wisheswent missing over 60 years ago, dreams and fears with each otherthe 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, not just because they can butas she was the last time she saw her, it seemsshe starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, because they have she is forgetting more and more in her day today life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857050958</amazonuk>1804181250
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan ClarkMadelaine Lucas|title=Rory's BoysThirst for Salt
|rating=5
|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
|genre=General Fiction
|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
|genre=General Fiction
|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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